Shock in Kiato, where 46-year-old woman died from botulism caused by green beans.
According to information from MEGA, at the same time her 77-year-old mother is being treated as an intubated patient.
"A woman aged about 70 years old was admitted to the hospital with a diagnosis of poisoning. Beyond that socially I tell you that in a health center of our prefecture we learned afterwards that her daughter passed away, apparently from the same cause," said Gregory Karpouzis, commander of the Corinth Hospital to "Live News".
What is botulism
Botulism is a rare but serious paralytic disease caused by a neurotoxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botuiinum and sometimes by strains of the bacteria Clostridium butyricum and Clostridium baratii. There are six types of botulism: a) foodborne, b) infant, c) adult intestinal toxemia, d) traumatic, e) iatrogenic, and f) inhalational.
Clostridium botulinum is a Gram (+) bacterium that grows best under anaerobic conditions. The bacterium produces spores that allow it to survive in adverse conditions until suitable conditions exist that allow it to grow. There are 7 types of botulinum toxin distinguished by the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G. Only types A, B, E and rarely F cause disease in humans. Botulinum toxin is considered one of the most lethal substances.
The lethal dose (LD50) is 1 ng of toxin per kilogram of body weight.
Incubation and transmission period
Symptoms in foodborne botulism start either very early, within 6 hours of eating contaminated food, or slowly up to 10 days later. Usually, the average incubation time of the disease is 18-36 hours.
In inhalational botulism the incubation time is longer, ranging from 12 to 80 hours after exposure, while in infantile botulism the incubation time is unknown because it is usually not clear when the ingestion of the bacterial spores occurred.
Although excretion of toxin and microbes in the faeces of adult patients with enteric toxaemia continues for weeks or months after the onset of symptoms, human-to-human transmission of the disease has not been documented.
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